The top 20 girls and boys are awarded medals. But it was freshman Dakota Grossman of Seabury Hall that claimed top individual honors making it the second year in a row that a freshman girl has taken the top spot. Brady finished second overall this year. Mosch stuck with his game plan of not going out too fast in the early going and found himself in 10 th place at the first mile marker.
Tarnas led the Bulls to a BIIF team runner up spot which allowed Parker to bring their entire seven man squad to compete at the state championship and as a result the team had a seventh place finish. Kamehameha-Oahu successfully defending their team crown with Leilehua taking second.
It has been more than a decade since a Big Island school has won a state cross country championship, but come Thursday that may all change. Last week the lady Ka Makani won their third consecutive Big Island Interscholastic Federation team title in impressive fashion beating out runner-up Honokaa by more than 70 points.
HPA is no stranger to runner success as their teams over the past four decades have won numerous state cross country championships. Punahou returns sophomore Elli Brady who won the state individual championship as a freshman, but it is another freshman, Dakota Grossman of Seabury, Maui, that is the favorite to win the state crown.
As usual, we will run together and we will embrace the challenge. Four time boys BIIF team champion, Honokaa, is expected to improve on their fifth place finish from last year. If their top three runners can break into the top 20 at the state championships, while keeping their fourth and fifth runners close behind, then anything is possible.
Mosch, an experienced senior, is expected to be somewhere in the top five and if the rest of the Dragon team stays close to Mosch there could be an upset. I feel a little pressure, but confident that things will go well.
Mosch won the race in 17 minutes and 37 seconds with Robinson 10 seconds behind. Their siren birdsong beckons. The rockface watches, gestures towards geologic time.
The highway roars on with vehicular fury, as the earth turns into its future ice age, moonscape, star, so slowly we will never know the never end. Poems live on my breath like a fragrant oil, cling to my fingertips, and as their time fades, they sink deeper, staining the soil of my world. I turn about my axis.
Greenwell, a strong and talented junior who placed second in the state last year, led the race from start to finish and was never seriously challenged. Greenwell has now won three consecutive BIIF individual championships and has not lost to a league runner since placing second in the first race of her freshman season. Vargas, 2 nd , led a barrage of talented Ka Makani harriers and was followed by freshmen Zoe Sims, 3 rd , and Emily Evans, 4 th. All season long the Warrior boys had been in the second tier of BIIF team scoring and during the championships rose to pull an upset over the higher ranked HPA and Hilo squads.
Ellsworth Fontes, at Kinoole St. Limited entries to the March 18, event. Veterans at Vet Day 5K - click photo to enlarge. Hawaii's favorite salmon fishing destination. A Peaceful Place to Stay, located in Hilo, call Home About Wayne. Chung sat out for the initial jumps and came into the competition at 9 feet and eventually cleared to finish in a tie for third place. Below is the list of qualifiers going into the finals:. Joseph, 12 3K. Emalia Galdeira, Kona, 1 long jump, 5 triple jump, 3 hurdles, 5 , 6 McKenna Davidson, Kealakehe, 8 long jump.
Boys Louis BIIF state leaders that are ranked in the top six:. Ellsworth Fontes, at Kinoole St.
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